Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to "full multilib"

2015-04-06 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick writes: > You can win, by running it reasonably often and actually doing something > about the output. Ignore a few lines and they soon become a few more, and > then a few more still... One thing I have noticed in its output is where it lists "installed packages with a version not

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-25 Thread Graham Murray
Andrés Becerra Sandoval writes: > If you put the kernels in /boot with proper names and launch: > > ​ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Grub will set up the kernels for you. How do you then choose which one to boot by default? I normally run hardened-sources but also want to occasional b

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-05 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon writes: > that's expected, BFQ isn't in mainline Nor is it in Gentoo hardened-sources.

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-29 Thread Graham Murray
"Stefan G. Weichinger" writes: > Just found this note from Pacho on planet.gentoo.org: > > http://my.opera.com/pacho/blog/2013/08/27/how-to-write-proper-systemd-unit-files > > I will have to review some of my files then ;-) What I did not understand from reading that is why he (or gentoo policy)

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Graham Murray
Samuli Suominen writes: > Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a > single valid bug filed about them. > > Stop spreading FUD. In what way are network interface names predictable? A new system arrives on your desk, what is the name of the first (or only) Ethernet i

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Some possibly (?) helpful hints re the big gnome-3.8 update

2013-07-31 Thread Graham Murray
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > The wiki is wrong. The script /etc/init.d/udev is part of sys-fs/udev, > which you need to uninstall before installing systemd. Perhaps it's > CONFIG_PROTECT'd, but anyway sys-fs/udev and sys-apps/systemd install > the udev binary in different directories, so the scr

Re: [gentoo-user] "auto-config" of new gentoo-sources?

2013-03-09 Thread Graham Murray
Mike Gilbert writes: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Jarry wrote: >> So my question is: how is this possible? Is maybe ".config" >> file from the old sources-tree copied to new sources-tree? >> Or is the actual configuration of running kernel somehow >> detected and ".config" file generated?

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Orlitzky writes: > The 'conntrack' module is supposed to be a superset of 'state', so most > things should be compatible. You really have two warnings there; the > first is for the state -> conntrack switch, and the second is because > you're missing the --state flag in your rules. > > In

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update : how to keep it going?

2012-12-01 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > --keep-going does not help you, if the emerge does not start because of > missing dep/slot conflict/blocking/masking whatever... Though it would be nice if there was some flag, probably mainly of use with either ' -u @world' or --resume, to tell portage to get on

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-15 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > and for a simple reason: ml have always been. So 'old timers' and 'people > knowing their crap' hang around those. Then came AOL, eternal September and > forums for this new crop of lol users. And since like minded people love to > congrate... And prior to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent ulimit for daemons

2012-08-02 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Orlitzky writes: > Is there a blessed method these days for setting the ulimit per-daemon? > > The best I've been able to do is a global setting in /etc/rc.conf: > > rc_ulimit="-s 1048576" > > The entries under /etc/security seem to be ignored when using > `/etc/init.d/foo start`. Add

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Anybody know of a 'Genius' type service or site for TV shows/Movies/Music that is not owned by Apple?

2012-07-09 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Hampicke writes: > For movies and series you might try trakt[2]. It basically works the > same like last.fm and also integrates great with my media center pc > (based on XBMC). It is a pity that this does not seem to support any of the 'standard' Linux video players - Xine, mplayer, or v

Re: [gentoo-user] start X - Segmentation fault

2012-07-08 Thread Graham Murray
Joseph writes: > This was a box in remote location, so the upgrade was done via ssh and > I was able to login via NX but when I tried to login locally (at the > box I get: Segmentation fault > > What should I try next? As you can log in remotely but get a segfault when logging in locally, could

Re: [gentoo-user] Why sources 3.2.21 in emerge -vuDp world

2012-07-05 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam writes: > Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit > > Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world > > Lists gentoo-sources in output like this: > > , > | [ebuild NS] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE="-build > | -deblob -symlink" 452 kB > ` > > Even wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Graham Murray
nap...@squareownz.org writes: > Postgres doesn't have a home directory and if I create one and chown it > postgres:postgres I still can't do anything. I'm totally at a loss here. Postgres should have a home directory - /var/lib/postgresql If you run su - postgres, this is the directory you shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-22 Thread Graham Murray
kwk...@hkbn.net writes: > Bless those who keeps on telling people there is no need to rebuild > packages after glibc upgrade, for they must have not used pam or any > other packages that uses dlopen(). So which packages need to be rebuilt? Owing to the initial non-availability of the patch file,

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-21 Thread Graham Murray
pk writes: > On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote: > >> It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX & the manual says : > > Hm... the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines > with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem to support AHCI. Sorry... If it is an ICH which does not support AHCI,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Graham Murray
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > * Really simple service unit files: The service unit files are really > small, really simple, really easy to understand/modify. Compare the 9 > lines of sshd.service: > > $ cat /etc/systemd/system/sshd.service > [Unit] > Description=SSH Secure Shell Service > After=s

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-17 Thread Graham Murray
Stroller writes: > Ok, so my system has 2 network cards. Maybe I only use one of them, or > maybe they need to be physically connected in a certain way (one to > LAN, the other WAN). In this particular case, it is pity that it is not more deterministic in the first place. When installing a new s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread Graham Murray
walt writes: > In any case, if you need -zlib in one package and zlib in another you can > set/unset the needed flag for just one package in /etc/portage/package.use. The real problems come when you find that one package depends on foo[bar] and another on foo[-bar]

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Graham Murray
James Broadhead writes: > I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty > unique; no standard set of fonts, for example. So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it might not be able to track you - thinking that you are actually multiple different people.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Graham Murray
Tanstaafl writes: > On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. >> However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file >> once a quarter or so and remove anything that isn't a real >> application, etc. > > How

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to access bugs.gentoo.org

2011-11-06 Thread Graham Murray
Mick writes: > On Sunday 06 Nov 2011 08:48:45 Graham Murray wrote: >> For the last day or so, every time I try to access b.g.o I get an OCSP >> error "(Error code: sec_error_ocsp_bad_http_response)" in firefox. I >> have seen this error before but it is normally tr

[gentoo-user] Unable to access bugs.gentoo.org

2011-11-06 Thread Graham Murray
For the last day or so, every time I try to access b.g.o I get an OCSP error "(Error code: sec_error_ocsp_bad_http_response)" in firefox. I have seen this error before but it is normally transient and only lasts a few minutes. Are others seeing this or is it a problem at my end? Other https sites

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue

2011-10-10 Thread Graham Murray
CJoeB writes: > I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed > to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a > command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half > black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this > any better).

[gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Graham Murray
Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then there was an -r1 release and to

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Mol writes: > Also, check your BIOS to see if it's running your SATA controller in > some kind of IDE emulation mode. If it is, disable that. (Some > motherboards let you choose between "IDE" and "RAID", where "RAID" is > AHCI mode. Others call IDE mode 'legacy', and still others might >

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread Graham Murray
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10 > > (media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.32::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > ~media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.32 required by > (media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.32::gentoo, installed) > > (media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-05-30 Thread Graham Murray
Dale writes: > There are times that if portage removed a config file, I would not be > happy. Sometimes I unmerge a package then remerge but want to keep > the config files. > > Would I like there to be the option, yep, I sure would. There are > also times when I want to get rid of a package an

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-29 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman writes: > In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files > or anything from /etc without your involvement (either manually or > with etc-update or similar). Do any of the config tools, etc-update, dispatch-conf, cfg-update etc, ever prompt for removing a redun

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-15 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user >> mode and rebuild my video drivers. > > Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. I do not know about the particular video

[gentoo-user] Packages needing masked 'introspection' keyword

2011-04-24 Thread Graham Murray
After syncing a few minutes ago, emerge -puDv --reinstall changed-use --autounmask=y @world @system These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/libpng-1.4.7 [1.4.5] USE="-static-libs" 535 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/gobje

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding more than one static IP

2011-01-24 Thread Graham Murray
Amar Cosic writes: > Hello list > > My mind is just "locked" at the moment and I am trying to figure out > what am I doing wrong here. I have 4 static IP's on server machine > and I have something like this in /etc/conf.d/net : > > > > config_eth0=( "77.xxx.104.14/24" ) > routes_eth0=( "default v

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Graham Murray
Joseph writes: > So now system boots but I can not seem to the network card going. > On the "lspci -k" I think you mean lspci -nn (there is no switch -k) No, he does mean 'lspci -k'. The -k switch lists the kernel driver which is handling each item. If you do this from the CD then you can tell w

Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ??

2010-10-28 Thread Graham Murray
Joseph writes: > The reason I'm asking is that I'm getting some strange errors when using > 'sql-ledger' eg. > Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at SL/IS.pm line 582. The 'XXX is depreciated" messages are not normally errors. They are just to inform you that the script is using a deprec

Re: [gentoo-user] Up-/Down-grade of KDE

2010-09-12 Thread Graham Murray
Dan Johansson writes: > On Sunday 12 September 2010 12.11:14 Dan Johansson wrote: >> Yesterday my ~x86 Gentoo box got KDE upgraded to 4.5.1 and today portage >> want to downgrade it again to 4.4.5 and I can not figure out why. >> >> My "emerge --update --deep --verbose --reinstall changed-use wo

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Graham Murray
Ajai Khattri writes: > I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just > hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to > fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines, others dont > work at all. > > The worst case is one where Ive upgraded ude

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon writes: > Why should I do all the work of pinning packages to known good versions when > the RHEL devs have already done all the heavy lifting for me? The problem with that is when you are starting a new project now, but the packages were pinned down quite a few years ago and ther

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

2010-08-19 Thread Graham Murray
Elmar Hinz writes: > 2010/8/18 Alan McKinnon : >> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:25 on Wednesday 18 August 2010, Elmar Hinz >> did opine thusly: >> >>> The gentoo wiki suggests in different places to set the LINGUAS >>> environment variable in make.conf. >>> >>> What has LINGUAS todo with mak

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Graham Murray
I have glibc-2.12.1 running on two ~x86 systems with no problems so far. > Hi, > > Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? > > I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and > downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can find at > this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?

2010-08-03 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers > differences, not whole files. But is uses a *lot* more disk space on the systems as each system contains the full history.

Re: [gentoo-user] SPF & sendmail: howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Graham Murray
Jarry writes: > Hi, > > I would like to integrate Sender Policy Framework (SPF) with my > MTA (sendmail), but can not find any documentation for dealing > with SPF, Sendmail & Gentoo. > > I could install mail-filter/libspf2, but how can I make sendmail > use it? There are milters for SenderID, DK

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?

2010-07-02 Thread Graham Murray
Dale writes: > This appears to be the opposite of a upgrade. He has a package that > wants the OLD slotted version of libpng not the NEW slotted version. > If I understand that correctly, he has already done the upgrade but > now something needs the old package installed in addition to the new >

[gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?

2010-07-02 Thread Graham Murray
After an emerge --sync on an ~x86 system, the upgrade to opera-10.60 wants to install libpng-1.2.44 in a new slot. Considering all of the problems surrounding the upgrade to libpng-1.4.3, is it safe to let portage install libpng-1.2.44?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Graham Murray
Grant writes: > Google says the error can be due to disabling dri in xorg.conf, but I > don't have anything like that. Should CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y include > the dri or dri2 module? The dri and dri2 modules should be installed by x11-base/xorg-server.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon writes: > There's an API break between the nouveau driver and the drm in 2.6.3[23] (not > completely sure about the versions) > > Hence the workaround of nouveau-drm > > Hopefully it will be *very* temporary It is. 2.6.34 (which is in ~arch) fixes the API break with the Nouveau dr

Re: [gentoo-user] no mouse nor keyboard on X

2010-05-08 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon writes: > xorg-drivers is just a meta package and won't remerge individual drivers > unless the version number changes. It look to me like you have an evdev > driver > built against an earlier X server Does anyone else think it would be useful for emerge to have a switch to make

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
Kraus Philipp writes: > Hello, > > I must test a software with a older version of the glibc. I run the > 2.11.1 now but for one tool I need a previous version (2.6.1). > How can I compile the glibc without changing my system glibc. I would > like to set the previous glibc with the LD_PATH. > Can

[gentoo-user] Multiple serial ports

2010-04-28 Thread Graham Murray
What is the current recommendation for handling multiple serial ports on a Gentoo server? In $dayjob we used to use Perl SX cards but recent kernels have marked the driver for these as 'broken'[1]. We have tried Digi Etherlite with the dgrp driver, but have had problems with write(2) blocking forev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server/nvidia/x86-driver updated: No kbd, no mouse

2010-04-25 Thread Graham Murray
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > That was also my first thought, but evdev was recompiled -- as I wrote > in my initial mail... > > What next? Do you have an InputClass section in your xorg.conf? This is needed for xorg to use udev to detect input devices.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread Graham Murray
walt writes: > That was true in the past, but no longer. The recent release of xorg 1.8 > specifically says that hal will not be supported in any future xorg versions, > so we should all start looking beyond hal. Don't spend a lot of effort now > learning about hal because it's on the way out.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables - do I need the nat table?

2010-04-11 Thread Graham Murray
Tanstaafl writes: > I'm a bit clueless when it comes to firewalls, and have no idea what > these numbers mean/do: > > *raw > :PREROUTING ACCEPT [4911:886011] > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [4546:2818732] > COMMIT The numbers are [packets:bytes] which match the rule or table concerned.

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma conflicting man?

2010-04-08 Thread Graham Murray
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Hi, > > this morning an update wants to install coreutils with > coreutils-patches, which are compressed via the lzma-tool, > which is not found on my system. install app-arch/xz-utils

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa-update not in sync with kernel version

2010-04-05 Thread Graham Murray
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > walt [10-04-05 05:02]: >> On 04/04/2010 11:42 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Do you have media-sound/alsa-driver installed? If so, that is the >> cause of your problem -- just emerge -C alsa-driver. That package >> is only for people who are testing/debugging al

Re: [gentoo-user] openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users

2010-03-12 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman writes: > Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to > openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be > updated or else you won't be able to login to your system. > > If you have: > AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys > (which i

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib > profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it will > pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to care about. What is unsafe about a 64bit only system? Surely

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Graham Murray
Helmut Jarausch writes: > Hi, > > I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . > emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. > > Is there something easier than Try emerge -u $(qlist -IC kde-base/)

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-12 Thread Graham Murray
"Walter Dnes" writes: > - I run Firefox > - I go to live365.com and log in > - I click on an icon, and Firefox starts up an audio player, and passes > it the appropriate URL. > - I start reading/writing emails, whilst enjoying music in my headphones > > The audio player needs to communicate w

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-12 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Friday 12 February 2010 09:44:01 Graham Murray wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes: >> > so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser >> > or mail app that they are offline? >> >> Why does the app

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser or > mail app that they are offline? Why does the app need to know? Browsers normally have an online/offline menu selection and if you try to browse to a site when your network is offline the

Re: [gentoo-user] Native vs Core2

2009-12-16 Thread Graham Murray
"Jason Carson" writes: > Hey everyone, > > This guy (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-806844.html#6097354) says > that -march=native and -march=core2 differ. Which one do I choose for my > Core i5 CPU? As long as you are only building binaries for the system you are building on, then use -ma

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-16 Thread Graham Murray
Roger Mason writes: > Zaphod style? What is that? Two headed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-06 Thread Graham Murray
Drew writes: > Isn't the memory hole above 3GB present even in the 64bit systems? > Something about the MMIO reservations for the PCI bus taking up the > top gig of the first four Gigs? I do not know. What I do know is that the system I am using here at home has 6GB RAM, the one I use at work ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-04 Thread Graham Murray
Xavier Parizet writes: > If you want your processes to use more than 3GB of memory, then yes, boot up > with a 64bit OS (again correct me if i'm wrong) ;) Or configure your 32bit kernel with HIGHMEM = 64GB

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 fails

2009-11-16 Thread Graham Murray
Erik writes: Installing (2 of 4) dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 [snip] > * Detected file collision(s): > * > * /usr/lib/kde4/kdevdocumentview.so

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Graham Murray
Eray Aslan writes: > - No need to logrotate with time based filenames. Hence, no need to > "kill -HUP" the syslog daemon. No missed logs. But you still need some system (eg tmpwatch) to delete old log files otherwise the disk will (eventually) fill with log files. Logrotate automatically h

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild of Postgres-8.3.8 almost a catastrophe

2009-11-09 Thread Graham Murray
Stroller writes: > On 9 Nov 2009, at 10:25, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > I assume this is an upstream decision, and may be expected to apply to > 8.3.9, 8.3.10, ... also? I have no reason to "wait and see if this is > resolved", I should be careful to do a dump and restore next time I > upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam writes: > I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to > be incorporated so no I didn't > > If I had put .confg into the new sources, then plain make menuconfig > is what I would have used. That is the wrong way round! make oldconfig uses the .config in t

Re: [gentoo-user] new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam writes: > I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have > forgotten why I had it masked. > > I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to > most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could > expect in the way of problems

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Murray
Jesús Guerrero writes: > Thanks for the feedback. However there's one thing I can't understand: > whether the libraries are kept of removed is decided at the merge time, > isn't it? So, whatever breaks, breaks when using "emerge" to update the > offending library, the one that will break the ABI.

[gentoo-user] firefox-3.5.4 & xulrunner version

2009-10-30 Thread Graham Murray
The ebuild for mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 has been changed to force ~xulrunner-1.9.1.3. As xulrunner-1.9.1.4 was put into the tree at the same time as firefox-3.5.4 and is shown as a security fix, is it right that mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 is forcing the downgrade to xulrunner-1.9.1.3-r1 (which is dated bef

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Graham Murray
Dale writes: > I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while ago. I'm trying to watch it > but it is really dark. I am using kmplayer with mplayer for the > backend. I found where it says you can adjust brightness and contrast > but they don't do anything. The screen looks fine outside of watchin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libssl3.so.12 not found, but why not? [SOLVED]

2009-09-17 Thread Graham Murray
walt writes: > On 09/17/2009 01:17 PM, Per-Erik Westerberg wrote: >> I'm using ~x86 and the following fixed the issue for me : >> >> revdep-rebuild --library libnss3.so.12 > > Interesting, thanks. Did you happen to try just plain revdep-rebuild before > adding the --library flag? I'm wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What does it take to get debug symbols from /lib/ld-2.9.so?

2009-09-06 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > Don't emerge with "debug -glibc-omitfp". Emerge with "splitdebug" in > FEATURES. And make sure you include a -g option (eg -ggdb) in CFLAGS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Graham Murray
Grant Edwards writes: > I haven't really paid much attention to start-up times, but > page loads in 3.5 feel a fair bit faster. I've also noticed > that 3.5 doesn't pause repeatedly while I'm typing a URL like > 3.0 used to. Page loads are faster, but page scrolling of some pages (eg slashdot ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash stopped running python scripts...

2009-08-04 Thread Graham Murray
Remy Blank writes: > The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You would think > breaking Python for all ~x86 is a major offense... It did not break for all ~x86. I have 2 systems both running ~x86, both have emerged (but not made active) python-3.1, /usr/bin/python is a bash scri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Graham Murray
Roy Wright writes: > OK, it's verified and ready now. Please try again. Will not install for me. It gives the following error ERROR: Error installing royw-qt-rebuild: royw-qt-rebuild requires commandline (>= 0.7.10, runtime)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-29 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > revdep-rebuild only resolves link-time errors, not runtime errors. > You need to observe yourself if something is broken and then rebuild > it manually; revdep-rebuild ain't gonna help in this case. Though it would be nice if there was some process to detect what need

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-11 Thread Graham Murray
Norman Rieß writes: > What do you want to do with your accesspoint. You will need a bridge > to a wired network if you want your ap attached to that wired > network. This is quite usual though... > Without a bridge to a wired network, only the wlan systems are > connected and can not connect to y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-07 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon writes: > The only reason it's masked is to force as many users as possible to use an > earlier version so that it "can receive more testing and get better bug > reports", and that was done by Zac himself. There is not a single technical > or > code quality reason for it to be m

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Graham Murray
Daniel Iliev writes: > pwd > /usr/src/linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 > > grep -i ext4 .config > CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y > # CONFIG_EXT4DEV_COMPAT is not set > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y Have you also got ext3 built in, and have you specified the rootfstype k

[gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-02 Thread Graham Murray
Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually changed following initial installation, then on an upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-29 Thread Graham Murray
Timur Aydin writes: > Hi, > > I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the > resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping > says "unknown host name". It doesn't even contact the dns > server, which is running on the same host. But dig works > fine. Al

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Graham Murray
Stroller writes: > But, surely "-march=" also instructs gcc to support the additional > instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying > to. > > What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of > instructions" with "-march=" and doing so with USEs? > > Or doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fake USE flag change

2009-05-24 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > emerge -auDN world > [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-3.1.0 LINGUAS="-sv%" > > This is ridiculous. I'm in no mood emerging Open Office just because > a LINGUAS changed which I don't even use. Something I can do about it > other than waiting one and a half hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying patches without needing overlays and modifying ebuilds

2009-05-17 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > What if we could just specify patches to be applied in, say, > /etc/portage/packages.patch with something like: > > media-video/smplayer j-random-hack.patch > > and portage would apply that patch automatically? That way, the > hassle of updating the ebuild of a pack

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-16 Thread Graham Murray
Mick writes: > Any progress with this guys? I am also trying to get something running > between a router and my laptop (using kvnc) but I am failing with this error: Here are some samples. /etc/racoon/racoon.conf path pre_shared_key "/etc/racoon/psk.txt"; remote anonymous { exchange_

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman writes: > buildsyspkg in FEATURES (make.conf) can be a life saver too :) But it does not (IMHO) save binaries for enough packages. For example, it saves a binary for portage but not for python. I think it would be good if it saved a binary package for everything which would be built

Re: [gentoo-user] Window borders in gnome desktop when maximized hide behind panels

2009-05-11 Thread Graham Murray
Thanasis writes: > After some recent update (~x86), windows in gnome desktop when > maximized hide their borders/bars behind the desktop panels, which is > really annoying. In the case of terminals, the prompt gets almost > hidden, in the case of other applications, the "file" menu gets > hidden,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Higgins writes: > Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one > *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour "with IPSEC"? I do not know about a Gentoo document, but I have connected a Gentoo system and Windows PC using racoon on the Gentoo syste

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-26 Thread Graham Murray
Dale writes: > I know you can use eix-test-obsolete to find outdated/unneeded thing in > /etc/portage but I wish it would also do something similiar for the > world file. I just wonder if the person that wrote eix and friends > could add that in as a feature? It would be neat. eix works really

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-05 Thread Graham Murray
Norman Rieß writes: > There was a lib update, that broke sancho a while ago. A new version of > sancho fixed this. But i had to use this new version from the developers > site, because even ~arch package was several versions lower. > Some weeks ago the oscar protocol or something was changed and

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-04 Thread Graham Murray
Mike Kazantsev writes: > -mtune=native can be dropped if -march=native is there already. It is still worthwhile keeping it in CFLAGS as some packages remove or replace the '-march' flag.

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman writes: > There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the > "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the > reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. > This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but

Re: [gentoo-user] netcard interface with alias

2009-03-02 Thread Graham Murray
Zhu Sha Zang writes: > Yeah Yeah, i've already seen this net.example. But before change to > appropriate setting, don't appear any interface with alias, anda > occour some errors when try to initialize devices. And the routes used > by alias don't worked. > > Someone had this working succesfully?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Graham Murray
ABCD writes: > Unfortunately, they cannot yet be distributed with the gentoo-x86 tree > (that's $PORTDIR, or /usr/portage, for you playing along at home). I > don't remember the reasons given for that, I think that it is because the versions of portage (2.2_rcx) which support sets are still mas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-08 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick writes: > Everyone's more or less agreeing here, that the info format is useful but > the standard info reader sucks. Once you start reading info pages in a > decent reader, like Konqueror, they are useful for more complex > documents. Although I'd still prefer HTML, mainly because

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Graham Murray
reQuiem23 writes: > yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system, it > even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4 root-filesystems? > i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel. Grub is not incompatible with ext4 root filesystems as long as you,

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage

2009-01-10 Thread Graham Murray
AllenJB writes: > First of all, a tip: If a portage upgrade is available, do "emerge > portage" first. New versions of portage often have new or improved > features - in this case portage 2.1.6 includes, among other things, > the ability to automatically handle most blockers. Though even the por

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Graham Murray
"Mark Knecht" writes: > Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do > that using revdep-rebuild doesn't? It allows the affected packages to continue working until the rebuild is done. With the 'old' revdep-rebuild, a program using a library whose version was incremented by

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